So… earlier this week I helped to launch a new business, TheMetropreneur.com. It’s a new local online resource devoted to small business development and entrepreneurship. Consider it a complimentary site to ColumbusUnderground, but with more of an eye on regional economic development and a more resource-heavy focus on assisting entrepreneurs. Anyway, go check it out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Development’
Robert Vitale Makes the Case for Urban Incubators
The first of three Downtown Strategic Plan Public Meetings was scheduled to be held tonight (the snow canceled it, and it should be rescheduled soon) but I can’t help but think that yesterday’s Dispatch article about the North Market by Robert Vitale was timed intentionally for this event. The article starts off by looking back 20 years [...]
More Bad News About the Columbus Casino
I admit that when the call was first made that Issue 3 had passed and that Ohio would be getting casinos, I was ready to give up and let it happen. What’s done is done, right? Wrong. While folks in Cleveland and Cincinnati and Toledo might feel differently, the voters in Central Ohio said that [...]
I-70/71 Split Fix Post-Meeting Update
As I mentioned yesterday, I attended the 70/71 Split Fix “Stakeholder Meeting Announcement” last night. I’ve posted the overview of what went down over here on Columbus Underground, which should give you a pretty good idea of what transpired. ODOT presented the plan…. everyone was unhappy with the plan… ODOT seemed to be listening. More [...]
Untangling the I-70/71 Split Fix
I’m headed to a meeting this afternoon where ODOT is supposed to be announcing some of their finalized plans for the Interstate 70/71 Split Fix project. This area is one of the most congested and crash-prone sections of highway throughout the entire state. I’m in favor of doing something about it… but there’s much more [...]
Dear Everyone, Please stop complaining about NRI
The biggest crux of “downtown” development is that it is generally cost prohibitive for individual or entrepreneurial real estate ventures. There are plenty of large expensive parcels of land downtown ripe for development, but the number of corporations who can both afford to build AND see the value (both monetary and socially) is fairly limited. [...]